The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-10-20
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AN lNDErENDENr STATE.
Facts and Figures Regarding the Political
Status OF New York. lr2=

Facts anu EisuFeb heshFu'hH Inc foutlcal
Status OF New York.
N. y. World. 4@s ot&
Going back forty yeasa, We nov zee by
tho experience OF the rrecsnt time the
truth Of tho saying that history repeats
ITSELF" AS long ago 40 1874 the people
learned not only that New York had In.
dependent voteIa, but that they became q
mighty power in the nation from the fact
that New YorE's large vote made her
then, as now, the pivotal State in Presi.
dental election.
Few persona probably remember that
Henry Clay, like Blaine, wss defeated by
The losl Of this State, and that he lost New
York through the detection OF "Independ-
ent" Wings. Yet such was the fact.
James X. Polk received ITO votes in the
Electoral College and Henry Clsy re-.
ceiyed los votes. New York had then
80 electoral votes and they were csat for
Polk. Had they been given to Clay,
Polk's vote would have been 134 in the
College and Clsy's vote III. Thus Clay
would have been elected. /
How did Clay lose He,o Horki sa$
Because Independent Wings, who were
dissstlafod with his course on tina a.aysry
question, supported Birney, the Abolition
candidste-who had in tho previous Presi.
Dental election received only $500 votes
in tho, state-snd gave him l5,S 500 votes
Tho New YORK vote stood as follows:
Polk, 237 ,5SS; Clsy, 2332 ,4S2; Birney, Is, sl2
Thus Folks plurality over Clay was only
5.106. II the Independent Wing vote
which was cast Tor Birnsy (slthoueh he
had no prospect Of success) had been
given to Clay, the plurality would have
been reversed and Clay would have OBJ.
tanned New York's Sc votes and been
elected President. i5
In 1913 just as singular result occur
red, only the independence instead OF
being on tho Wing was Oh the Democratic
aide, and thu Independents inatead OF
beating the WING dsteatsd the Democratic
candidate.
In the Electoral College Zachary Tay-
lor, Wing, received 1853 votes, and Lewis
Casa, Democrat, l27 votes. The 3G elecso.
ral votes OF New York were cRss for Tay.
lor. II they had been changed to Gags,
Taylor's vote in the College would have
been 1877 and Caas's vote 1853. ,ss9
Ho,c did Cass lose Neav York? ilE
Because the Independent Democrats
who refused to submit to the action Of tho
National Convention bol.ed the candidate
and, with Samuel J. Tilden as one OF their
leaders, cast their votes ior Martin Van
Buren,. The vote Of the State stood as
follows: Taylor, 2lS,6O3; Cass, 1l4,SlS;
Van Buren,, l20,5l0. Thus Taylor had
l04 ,225 plurality over CGss. But the joint
vote OF Cass and Van Buren, was 2Si SIS,
80 that if the Independent Democrats had
supported Cass the Democratic regular
candidate would have carried New York
by more than 1000 majority and would
have heen elected President.
In 1872 the Republican candidate, Gen.
eral Dix, was elected Governor by s., l5l
votes. at tbs very next Gubsrnatorial
election, in 1874, Mr.. TiIden was elected
over General Dix by 50.Sl7 votes.
Here was change Of nearly los, 900 in
two yeara.
For tho last fifteen years the results OF
elections in the State have been as follows,
the figures representing the pluralities OF
the head Of the ticket on the winning